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Title: Proceedings and Debates of the Third National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention, Held in the City of New York, April 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th, 1859 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1859 Original Publisher: E. Jones, Printers to Board of Councilmen Subjects: Public health Quarantine United States Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Barbarism and Civilization. -- History tells us of the immense population of ancient Rome at the height of her power, and the villas which overspread the surrounding country; both town and country preserving and maintaining a vigorous and unremitting observance of the laws enacted for the public health. From the same source we learn the melancholy and contrasted picture of Rome, fallen, depopulated, and rendered almost desolate by her barbarian invaders, and the consequent entire neglect of all sanitary legislation. Such was the wide-spread ruin which followed the repeated irruptions of barbarian conquerors and de spoilers, Goths, Huns, Vandals, and Lombards, that, in the eighth century, as we read in the pages of the learned and accurate Muratori, a considerable part of Italy was covered with forests and marshes of great extent, and infested wiih wolves and other wild beasts. The same state of desolati )n prevailed in other countries of Europe. Rome herself, fallen from her high estate, exhibited the melancholy spectacle of a great city in ruins ; the adjacent country a gloomy solitude, and disease reigning supreme over the surviving inhabitants. Plundered first by Alaric, and spared by the ferocious Attila, who had laid waste the whole empire, her greatest sufferings were caused by Totila, who besieged Rome, and cut the aqueducts, in o
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